Ardú Street Art project returned to Cork city this month, October 2021, with some of the country’s most exciting street artists to brighten up the city’s streets.

Ardú have commissioned artwork from home grown talent of the highest level with this year’s edition featuring four large-scale murals. 

Across Leeside, on the Lower Glanmire Road/Horgan’s Quay, you'll find one of four murals which makes up the 2021 Ardu Street Art Festival. This mural designed and completed by Navan-born artist Shane O’Malley explores Movement.

Artist Shane O'Malley said he was drawn to the way the mural is experienced,"the majority of people passing the mural would only see it for about 5 seconds. It is located at a busy junction entering Cork city, where traffic flows past the wall. People also walk past the wall and cross the road using 2 pedestrian crossings while a train line passes near the wall."

Shane's mural is made of bright coloured angular shapes and interconnected circles that follow the over-under pattern found in Celtic Knotwork. This creates dynamic flow lines throughout the wall so the mural feels like it has movement and is in motion. Shane added an anamorphic circle at the corner of the wall that is experienced when passing the mural on foot or in traffic.

Describing his work Shane  said, "I wanted to create a piece which is impactful and bright, that would transform the area and visually improve people's commute to the city.”

Pat McDonnell Paints recognise the importance of supporting the communities within which it trades and are honoured to have been asked to support this initiative through the sponsorship of the paint used to create these beautiful works of art on the streets of Cork city.